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Yay! Just what we need, more people governing technologies that they have zero clue about! This will work out perfectly.
First line of the article:
“President Joe Biden will deploy numerous federal agencies to monitor the risks of artificial intelligence and develop new uses for the technology"
He's not directly governing anything, he's just setting up agencies to assess the risks and find utility. It seems like a good idea, but honestly I fear nothing positive will come of it with regards to the protection of workers... We'll see, I guess.
Of course he's not the one overseeing it. Do you think they're actually going to be smart and staff it with people that have worked with AI for years... Or do you think they're going to staff it with people that have no fucking clue what they're doing because nepotism and "paying people back"? My guess is the latter. If you're making good money at a research institution or start up, why would you want to leave that and be the government's bitch? Remember when the FBI's Office of Personnel Management was hacked? Their head of Cryptography had zero background in it or computer science. Her degree was in Music. She even flat out said after the hack "I shouldn't have been in this position". Also look at all the current idiots that are attempting to govern smartphones, social media, and the Internet in general: they're either like 55-75 with no clue what they're talking about (there are TONS of videos and articles about Congress making absolute asses of themselves when questioning companies like Facebook and Google. One that comes to mind was someone asking the head of Google why iPhones were allowed to do X [couldn't think of the exact example and I just realized that X may be confused with Twitter now... fucking Elon...]) or they're younger and in touch with social media and the Internet in general, but still don't have a clue how any of it works. A prime example is Montana banning TikTok from the state. AFAIK it passed, but it's practically impossible to do since the state of Montana doesn't control the ISPs, cell carriers, Google, or Apple, so how they plan to implement this I have zero clue.
No, sure, let's just leave it to the mega-corps, what could possibly go wrong.
The solution is to vote in people who aren't old enough to have used type writers in highschool.
I used typewriters in high school. Wait.
I guess tech changes at different rates as well in different areas, my point is just that politicians shouldn't be legislating things they have no understanding of.
Of course that just goes in general as a total restructuring of the government system would be needed to account for the specialization of modern life and the needs of 2020's society as opposed to 1770's.
I'm actually in complete agreement, was just goofing around. I did use one, though. My grades went up because my handwriting was so bad. It was before computers were widely available but we had a computer lab at school. There was no way to get in there unless you were in a class using it that term. I did have a c64 but no printer. And so on.
Commodore 64? Yeah, you're old 😉 My first home computer had Windows 95 on it, the first one I ever used was probably Windows 3.1 or an Apple 2
My body tells me that every time I get out of a chair, thanks. :)
Just like we need companies using technologies to do whatever they want with reckless abandon.
The amount of companies that I've seen spout that their products are enhanced with AI ever since ChatGPT became a hot thing to the non-tech people is insane.